Uses

Desktop driver. Lives at the desk full time.

Travel and conference machine. Five years old and still in active use.

Mechanical wireless keyboard, paired with the iMac.

Low-profile, paired with the MacBook.

Mouse paired with the iMac.

Travels with the MacBook.

Wired over-ear closed-back. Used for focus work.

In-ear ANC. Default when I move around.

USB condenser with boom arm. Conference talks, video recordings.

Daily phone. Running stock Android.

Reading and sketching. Sometimes a second screen on the road.

AI-native VS Code fork. Primary editor.

Plain VS Code when I want to write without AI suggestions in the way.

Terminal-native coding agent. Long-running tasks, refactors, scaffolding.

Open-source agentic coding tool. Used on open-source work.

AI-augmented terminal. Blocks, sharable commands, agent mode.

Default macOS shell. Lightly customized.

Used every day.

LocalStack wrapper around the AWS CLI. Points at the local cloud.

GitHub CLI. PRs, issues, releases, gh api for the rest.

macOS package manager. Source of most CLI tools on this list.

Containers for the local stack and pretty much every demo.

Source control.

Node package manager. For this site and most JS work.

HTTP client used in scripts and one-off checks.

Infrastructure as code for AWS work.

When the work involves a cluster.

Cloudflare CLI. Deploys Workers and Pages.

Primary browser.

In-browser video and screen recording.

Grammar and copy-edit pass for anything I type into a textarea.

Tab management and task tracking inside the browser.

Command launcher and clipboard history. Replaces Spotlight.

Fast Docker / Linux containers on macOS. Less overhead than Docker Desktop.

Background noise cancellation on calls and recordings.

Local-first markdown notes.

SQL client. Used for running queries against databases.

Where the day-job conversations happen.

Default for the main work. Long context, code, writing.

Side projects and the cheap-tier API for shipping AI features. Also used for research and cross-checking Claude.

Local model runner (Qwen, Gemma, etc). Used for private work that should not leave the machine.

Hosting for this site and most static personal projects.

Edge functions when something static is not enough.

Where harshcasper.dev lives.

Source of truth. Actions for CI on every project here.

Through the LocalStack lens for most demos and integrations.

Earlier home for personal sites and demos. Still hosts a few old things.

Notes, drafts, and link logs.

Primary password store across Apple devices.

Secondary store, mostly for Chrome on the desktop.

New-tab task surface inside Chrome.

Schedules tasks, runs them on a cadence via an agentic workflow.

Issue tracker and project surface for day-job work.

Default app on the Pixel for everything in audio form.

Where most of the newsletters I read live. Specific subscriptions still being added here.

Primary streaming service. Library + Premium for offline.

Long-form shows and films.

Second streaming service. Different catalogue, different mood.

Lightweight smartwatch. Tracks steps, sleep, and workouts.

Runs and rides log. Where the wearable data ends up.

Passive activity tracking on the Pixel.